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A reciprocating engine of money, power and influence: how Australia's 'media monsters' used journalism to cement their empires

Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force than to the Australian media and its place in the nation’s power structure.

The Conversation

Silvio Berlusconi: Trump before Trump?

Berlusconi was a fake outsider selling fake populism and a path toward fascism — but still, there are differences

Salon

Elizabeth Holmes objects to $250 monthly payments to Theranos victims

Lawyers for disgraced CEO, who was once worth $4.5bn, say ‘limited financial resources’ mean she cannot afford repayments

The Guardian - US

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The Betoota Advocate Presents review – satirical news website’s TV debut is fast and funny

‘Australia’s oldest and most trusted newspaper’ is now on Paramount+, taking on familiar topics like Hillsong and Murdoch – but it remains very amusing

The Guardian - AU

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes says she can’t afford to pay $250-a-month restitution after serving her prison term

Lawyers for Holmes, who was once worth $4.5 billion, reportedly said she now has “limited financial resources.”

Fortune

Why was Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News?

The six reasons why Fox’s top anchor may have been too toxic to keep on the payroll

The Independent UK

How the Barclay empire lost its grip on the Daily Telegraph

Lost control of media assets over near £1bn debt gives lesson in perils of borrowing too much to expand

The Guardian - UK

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Succession wasn’t about the Murdochs? Surely it’s how they’d like to see themselves

Why are Rupert and co so obsessed with not being identified with the fictional Roys?

The Guardian - UK

Why is Prince Harry giving evidence in court?

Prince Harry will become the first British royal to appear in the witness box since the 1890s when he testifies this week at the High Court in London as part of his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers.

Reuters

Elizabeth Holmes prison: Everything we know about disgraced Theranos founder going to jail

Inmates at the Texas prison where Holmes is expected to report to on Tuesday are placed into work programmes where some earn as little as 12 cents an hour

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes surrenders to federal prison in Texas to begin 11-year sentence for Theranos scandal

Saga began two decades ago when Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in 2003 at the age of 19 to found Theranos

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes prison: Everything we know about disgraced Theranos founder going to jail

Inmates at the Texas prison where Holmes is expected to report to on Tuesday are placed into work programmes where some earn as little as 12 cents an hour

The Independent UK

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to begin 11-year stint in prison

She is to head to prison almost 20 years after she founded Theranos

Evening Standard

Morning Mail: poll shows support for housing action, wildfires in Canada, Russia’s spy whale

Majority of voters say government must do more top help renters, while ‘very aggressive’ spring wildfires in Nova Scotia prompt state of emergency

The Guardian - AU

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The Conversation

Rupert Murdoch: how a 22-year-old 'zealous Laborite' turned into a tabloid tsar

In September 1953, Rupert Murdoch arrived in sleepy Adelaide to take up his inheritance of News Limited. He was only 22 and had little experience of working at a newspaper, let alone running one, but his family had inherited a majority stake in the company following the death of Rupert’s…

The Independent UK

Hugh Grant: Judge rejects attempt to throw out lawsuit alleging illegal snooping by The Sun

Actor alleges journalists and investigators were hired to illegally snoop on him

The Independent UK

Court says Hugh Grant's lawsuit alleging illegal snooping by The Sun tabloid can go to trial

A London court has rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun newspaper to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging that journalists and investigators it hired illegally snooped on him

The Guardian - AU

The Australian blames ‘production error’ for attack on Noel Pearson added to reader’s letter

‘Horrified’ reader tracks down Indigenous leader to explain harsh words are not hers. Plus: tabloids smell blood as Michael Rowland takes a break

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The Week

Stan Grant and Australian media’s racism reckoning

After a three-decade career, the respected Indigenous Australian broadcaster Stan Grant hosted his final TV show on Monday after announcing that he would be stepping down due to racist abuse by viewers.

The New Daily

The other media baron who inspired Succession – more toxic and dysfunctional than Logan Roy

When Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch were asked about their succession plans, both had joked they didn’t plan to die.

The Conversation

Sumner Redstone: the other media baron who inspired Succession was more toxic and dysfunctional than Logan Roy

Just before the third season of the hit HBO television show Succession began, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, was asked (again) what it was about real-life media tycoons Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch that drove him to create a TV series about a fictional media family that bore some resemblances…

The Guardian - UK

Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened?

Their young audience made them the envy of the media’s old guard. But, ultimately, they couldn’t convert this into profit, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

Broadcasting & Cable

Fox News Ponders Major Post Tucker Carlson Primetime Shakeup: Sean Hannity Moves to 8 p.m., Laura Ingraham Out (Breathless Reports)

With its trademark siren blaring, the Drudge Report also says Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld will get primetime promotions

Reason

Did Fox Really Fire Tucker Carlson for Crossing the 'Red Line' of Criticizing Big Pharma, as RFK Jr. Claims?

If so, the network failed to enforce the supposed rule before and after cancelling its top-rated host.

The Independent UK

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes ordered to pay $125m back to Rupert Murdoch

Holmes and her former boyfriend, top Theranos executive Sunny Balwani, have been ordered to pay $452m in restitution

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